Since Old English was brought to England by Anglo-Saxish settlers in the fifth yearhundred, English has undergone a great many shifts, some brought on by other tungs, and others not. The Great Clipol Shift is a byspel, where the clipols in the words "bite" and "bout", which then clinked eachwise like today's words "beet" and "boot", became glides, making clipols made lower in the mouth become raised, sundering the clinking of the words from their spelling, yet blivingforetellsome. Many other, often less foretellsome shifts, have made outspeaking hard to foretell from spelling, however. English once had a manyfold layout of wordcraft, like that found in today's Icelandish, but through many shifts has lost wordcraftly kind and befall in its namewords and much of its deedword bendings. Today, English instead brooks word setup instead to get its meanings across.